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Sophie Fuji

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A shift in the fabric of culture. Please reach out with any thoughts, critiques, or further reading on Twitter. The liquidity of our modernity has birthed the playground of culture: the internet. As conceptualised by Zygmunt Bauman, modernity is liquid because of the ‘permanence of change’ seeking ‘an infinity of improvement’. The enabler of our impermanence is software. Allowing us to transcend all of our physical limitations, software enables us to write and rewrite, send and resend, do and redo at no extra cost. The internet is a polycentric society. It is a modular world for every user, where we are all working off the same database, but discover different centres and then generate different journeys. From luddites to the Extremely Online, we have connected billions of people who have and will never meet, democratised information for anyone with a connection, and created countless online-only industries that have flourished into multibillion dollar businesses. Culture is created

Post-internetism - Sophie Fuji ← Back Post-internetism The liquidity of our modernity has birthed the playground of culture: the internet. As conceptualised by Zygmunt Bauman, modernity is liquid because of the 'permanence of change' seeking 'an infinity of improvement'. The enabler of our impermanence is software. Allowing us to transcend all of our physical limitations, software enables us to write and rewrite, send and resend, do and redo at no extra cost. The internet is a polycentric society. It is a modular world for every user, where we are all working off the same database, but discove

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